our newest addition to Poem + Prompt is a previously unreleased prose poem by @vikshirley.bsky.social who turns a cinematic universe into a surrealist fever dream complete with a free writing prompt neonpajamas.substack.com/p/087-poem-p...
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Working with (or have worked with) indie presses including KERNPUNKT, Black Herald, Shearsman, Carcanet, PN Review, Sublunary Editions, CB editions, Stone Corpse, Hanuman, Vanguard & more! Founding Director: Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social
some above/ground press author activity: Elizabeth Robinson, Vik Shirley, rob mclennan, Jordan Davis, Jason Heroux + Sarah Burgoyne, / @jordandavis.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/09/some...
some author activity: Robinson, Shirley, mclennan, Davis, Heroux + Burgoyne,
Elizabeth Robinson has new work up at dialogist ; Vik Shirley has both poem and prompt as part of Benjamin Niespodziany's Sunday poem + prom...
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A great evening at the V&A Museum last night with @vikshirley.bsky.social and @andreamason.bsky.social Vik's pamphlet, Persona Digitalia, is on display at the museum as part of David Solo’s Photo Poetry browsing library for the next two weeks, go and see it if you can ❤️
Vik Shirley@vikshirley.bsky.social · 2mo agoGreg selected this pair from my pamphlet Persona Digitalia, which is currently on display at the V&A Museum in London. Published as part of the inaugural P5 series by @photoworks-uk.bsky.social and @davidisolo.bsky.social with @janeandjeremy.bsky.social. 💞 photoworks.org.uk/shop/p5-vik-...
The brilliant @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social is looking for your help to publish more poetry next year. If you can donate, that's more wonderful words out in the world: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-broke...
Help Broken Sleep Books Publish New Poetry in 2027
Help Broken Sleep Books, an award-winning, working-class run, independent poetry press, publish its 2027 list of new books.
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New arrival! Excited for this new book of short stories published by one of my fave publishers @confingopublishing.bsky.social in Manchester! 🖤
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The Barbellion Prize@barbellionprize.bsky.social · 2w agoThank you to all who submitted! The longlist will be announced in December. In the meantime, we need your help! DONATIONS NEEDED Please head over to the Barbellion website to donate any amount! barbellionprize.org/donate/
Poetry as a journey: What Lies Ahead by Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social @blackheraldpress.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/10/21/p...
Poetry as a journey: What Lies Ahead by Caroline Clark
The epigraph at the very beginning of Caroline Clark’s new collection of essays, What Lies Ahead, reads simply: Can I be with youwhile you read this?Don’t look up orsay anything. And, as you read t…
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It's that time again. My review of Traveling, Paul Vangelisti A Book of Psalms, Alan Baker @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social @disruptedblue.bsky.social @leafepress.bsky.social ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...
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Thank you to all who submitted! The longlist will be announced in December. In the meantime, we need your help! DONATIONS NEEDED Please head over to the Barbellion website to donate any amount! barbellionprize.org/donate/
Thank you Greg Thomas for including my Blossom Blanket photo poems in his Oo Press poem postcard series! Me and my boy back at the scene of the crime yesterday, Canongate Kirkyard, where the original pic was taken in spring 2025, the image I worked with for these. oo-press.com/postcard-poe...
Greg selected this pair from my pamphlet Persona Digitalia, which is currently on display at the V&A Museum in London. Published as part of the inaugural P5 series by @photoworks-uk.bsky.social and @davidisolo.bsky.social with @janeandjeremy.bsky.social. 💞 photoworks.org.uk/shop/p5-vik-...
P5 - Vik Shirley - Photoworks
Persona Digitalia by Vik Shirley Persona Digitalia is a book of pairs, two versions of a treated and duplicated image each housed in its own grid. One grid so tight that no trace of the subject is vi...
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The books pictured are all by writers who could have entered The Barbellion Prize, inc. The Journal of a Disappointed Man by the author this award is named after: W.N.P. Barbellion! LAST CHANCE TO ENTER SUBS CLOSE 1ST SEPT! TBP celebrates writing that reps experience of chronic illness & disability.
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The 2021 @barbellionprize.bsky.social winning What Willow Says by @lynnbuckle.bsky.social ‘Evocative, carefully crafted and full of heart’ From you local bookshop, as ePub or direct from us:https://www.epoquepress.com/online-store/What-Willow-Says-p300450204 #epoquepress #booksky
@vikshirley.bsky.social’s sonnet figuratively/literally electrifies the #ArtSonnetChain as we approach its end with a tribute to #TanakaAtsuko: Bulb on bulb, light-tier wrapped in fluorescent tubes: stripped lacquered circuit, a neon kimono. I blink in sparks; breathe in particles.
I participated in an art sonnet chain and wrote a poem inspired by Tanaka Atsuko’s Electric Dress!💡⚡️ 🌈 ♥️
Bill Herbert@billherbert.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe’re all lit up (particularly the electric triskodekaphiliacs among us) to welcome @vikshirley.bsky.social as our 13th sonneteer with this brilliant poem about #TanakaAtsuko: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/a... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies #ArtSonnetChain
We’re all lit up (particularly the electric triskodekaphiliacs among us) to welcome @vikshirley.bsky.social as our 13th sonneteer with this brilliant poem about #TanakaAtsuko: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/a... #NewBootsAndPantisocracies #ArtSonnetChain
Art Sonnet Chain 13: Vik Shirley
After Tanaka Atsuko’s Electric Dress, 1956 In my head, my hands; it’s all connected, bone on bone,bulb on bulb, light-tier wrapped in fluorescent tubes:stripped lacquered circuit, a neon kimono.I b…
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Thank you, dear Imogen! 💜💙💜💙xx
Imogen Reid@imogenreid.bsky.social · 3mo agoBeautiful post from @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social & @vikshirley.bsky.social No @smallpublishers.bsky.social this year, I will miss having a chat with @emmabolland.bsky.social @rachelartsmith.bsky.social & @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Good job you can order the book here intergraphia.cargo.site/Shop
I review four titles from @tapsalteerie.bsky.social today ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/f... #poetry #bookreviews
Four from Tapsalteerie: A Review
Devour Everything, Sarah Stewart, Tapsalteerie, 2026, SKU: 978-1-9192208-0-2, €15.00 Knockan, Jim Carruth, Tapsalteerie, 2026, SKU: 978-1-7384396-9-0, €15.00 Weathershaker, Stewart Sanderson, Tap…
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Instant impulse buy!
Vik Shirley@vikshirley.bsky.social · 3mo agoMy pamphlet 'Amorous Electrons', which draws on the music & writing of Daphne Oram (1925-2003), co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop & first woman to design & construct an electronic musical instrument, is published today & is now available to buy from the @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social site…
Had a fabulous time @andreamason.bsky.social Waste Exchange. Got lost, arrived late, missed @susiecampbell.bsky.social et al. Saw the amazing, Colin J Herd, @vikshirley.bsky.social and Nicky Melville, Wow! @joannapocock.bsky.social Came home with these beauties by SJ Fowler & Pepe Mason-Bradshaw 🔥🔥🔥
In their spirit photography in the 1920s and '30s, the Scottish-born brothers Craig and George Falconer specialised in ectoplasm. The results are rather artistic. #PhantomsFriday
Cover reveal! We're delighted to announce the first title in intergraphia Series 5: 'Amorous Electrons' by @vikshirley.bsky.social, a sequence of images and poetry that draws on electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics'. On sale from Wednesday.
Out now! The first title in Series 5: 'Amorous Electrons' by @vikshirley.bsky.social, a sequence of images & poetry that draws on electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 'An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics'. Buy the pamphlet + poster here: intergraphia.cargo.site/Vik-Shirley-...
